Portugal's New Housing Law and its effect on hostels

[SBurgess]

Today, CNN published an article concerning the housing crisis in Portugal and how a new law will affect Portugals hostels.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/portugal-housing-law-hostels/index.html

 

[JCLima]

Hostels will be just fine

 

[Charlie Davenport]

This looks like the news trying to create news.

 

[lt56ny]

I have no idea how this will really adversely affect the pilgrim. If anything it may help as more pilgrims look to municipal albergues. Maybe the number of municipal albergues will grow. It also seems like that many private albergues would not be affected by the new law. Which does not become law until 2030.

 

[Friend from Barquinha]

The places they are aiming this at are:

Lisbon, which, between regular tourism and encouraging "digital nomads," has lost many apartments to AL status, Porto, where the same is true to a lesser effect, and the Algarve's beach towns.

In all these areas, there is a severe housing shortage which impacts business because employees cannot find affordable places to live. (Same thing happening in any tourist-dependent major city in Europe and North America.) Thus the new law, which is a response to a housing crisis locally.

Of course those subject to the new law and tax are indignant about it. It should not affect peregrinos at all. A non-issue in the rural areas north of Lisbon where AL are exempt from this law.

 

[VeganCamino]

Today, CNN published an article concerning the housing crisis in Portugal and how a new law will affect Portugals hostels.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/portugal-housing-law-hostels/index.html

Thanks for sharing. I'm not surprised because when I was there in 2019 Portugal seemed like the best place in the world and now everyone wants to live there.